Title:
TEAM
WORK
Author:
Andrea
Del Pesco
Print size:
cm. 74,5 x 53
Image size: cm. 68,5 x 46,5
Printed
on patinated glossy paper, 7.05 Oz.
Limited edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed by author
Price:
Euro 129,00 (VAT
included)
Model
No: ADP002
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On
the stand of the Formula 1 goes up the man who will be esteemed the absolute protagonist
of the competition: the racing car driver. Yet motor racing is not only an individual
sport, it is also a team work and the "group" is composed by about twenty mechanics
that steadily control the single-seat. They spend whole days (and nights) on the
circuit to allow the car driver to compete for one hour and half. The technical
team works very hard even during the race: fills up the petrol, replaces the tyres
and works out all the little faults that can happen during the race. The Grand
Prix strategy is based on the number and on the length of the stops at the boxes
and a pit-stop can even sets out a victory.
Therefore I wanted to dedicate
a picture to the Ferrari technicians, as they combine an high competence to a
great fancy. Still under our eyes are the images of the "red suits" joy when Michael
Schumacher won the World Championship 2000. The framing casts the observer in
the middle of the fray, as if he were one of the technicians working around the
vehicle. Seemingly the scene is chaotic, but every gesture has been tested several
times and the little crowd of technicians is moving in a regular flurry. It is
a mosaic where all the testers fit perfectly in. The suits and the headgears made
the scene almost science-fiction, but under this "armour" there are man, each
of them with his own face, his own story and his own personality. However during
those few seconds, they have to set aside their spontaneity to leave room to coldness
and to the planned gestures.
Carrying out this work has been particularly
difficult, not only for the elevated definiteness of the details, but also for
the iconographic research on the numerous elements that form such a rich scene.
I didn't want to leave anything to chance, not even the pit-lane asphalt that
is rutted with wheel marks and with lubricants spots. The scene is being observed
even by Jean Todt, the technician in charge of Ferrari, who divides his attention
between the racing-car still on the racing track and the one at the the box.
Andrea Del Pesco - March 2001 |
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